Sunshine Peak, Colorado

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 14,007 ft / 4270 m
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	37° 55' 22'' N, 107° 25' 32'' W 37.922783, -107.425609 (Dec Deg) 286799 E 4200022 N, Zone 13 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	Colorado
County/Second Level Region	Hinsdale
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Sunshine Peak":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Sunshine Peak at SummitPost      Sunshine Peak at ListsOfJohn      Sunshine Peak at Mountain-Forecast.com      Sunshine Peak at Summits on the Air (Amateur Radio) Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Sunshine Peak:      USA 48-States 14,000-foot Peaks (Rank #64)      Colorado 14,000-foot Peaks (Rank #53)      Customary Western USA Fourteeners (Rank #74)      14ers.com Colorado Fourteeners (Rank #58)      United States 14,000-foot Peaks (Rank #89)      North America 14,000-foot Peaks (Unranked)      Colorado Centennial Peaks (Top 100) (Rank #53)      United States 13,750-foot Peaks (Rank #89)      Colorado 13,700-foot Peaks (Rank #53)      Colorado 13,500 foot Peaks (Rank #53)      Colorado Thirteeners (Rank #53) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Colorado's Fourteeners: From Hikes to Climbs (Roach)        A Climbing Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners (Borneman, Lampert)
Ascent Info Total ascents/attempts logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 437      Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 406) Selected Trip Reports:      1988-07-23 by David Olson      2001-07-06 by Petter Bjørstad      2002-06-22 by Joe Lavelle      2002-07-02 by Bob Bolton      2004-07-12 by Dave Boboltz      2006-04-29 by Mountain Climber      2006-07-15 by Chris Jaquet      2008-07-04 by David Foster      2010-07-05 by Donnie Puckle      2014-07-27 by Matt Whittaker      2014-09-07 by Mike Ehrhardt      2016-07-03 by Whiley Hall      2016-07-03 by Paul Andrews      2016-08-05 by Michele Arnold      2016-09-30 by Glenmore Heilman      2016-11-05 by Ben Ryan      2017-09-16 by Richard Hensley      2019-07-28 by Joseph McGrath      2019-08-10 by Jim Alt (GPS Track)      2020-07-30 by BMS 914 (GPS Track)      2020-07-30 by Eric Kassan (GPS Track)      2020-08-01 by Ellen Sebastian      2020-08-07 by Scott Burns      2020-09-19 by Stan Barlow (GPS Track)      2021-06-03 by Trevor Butcher      2021-07-19 by Jeremy Troy      2021-07-27 by Whiley Hall (GPS Track)      2021-08-09 by Chris Denu      2021-08-14 by Whiley Hall (GPS Track)      2021-09-13 by Stav Basis      2022-06-04 by Benjamin Kiser      2022-07-16 by William Musser      2022-08-05 by Whiley Hall (GPS Track)
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Sunshine Peak from 13er "Sundog" (2016-10-07). Photo by Eli Boardman. Click here for larger-size photo.
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 481 ft/147 m   Optimistic Prominence: 521 ft/159 m   Line Parent: Redcloud Peak   Key Col: 13,520 ft/4121 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 1.26 mi/2.03 km    Isolation Limit Point: 37.9408, -107.4217 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Redcloud Peak  (N)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: Rocky Mountains Range3: Southern Rocky Mountains Range4: San Juan Mountains Range5: North-Central San Juan Mountains Range6: Redcloud Area
Drainage Basins	Gunnison Colorado Gulf of California Pacific-Central America/Mexico Pacific Ocean
Ownership	Land: BLM Land in Colorado
Topo Map	Redcloud Peak O37107h4 1:24,000
First Ascent	1874     Rhoda, Franklin     Wilson, Allen D.
Data Source	1:25,000 (or larger) Topographic Survey Map
Dynamic Map  Sunshine Peak   ( Key Col)    Other Peaks Click Here for a Full Screen Map

Other Photos

Eric and Bob on the summit of Sunshine (2018-07-23). Photo by Eric Smith.

Redcloud (left) and Sunshine (right) from the summit of Handies (2019-10-06). Photo by Jeremy McGuire. Click here for larger-size photo.

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